I've been touched by the mental struggles of binge eating young women
on YouTuve lately. From the vantage point of my advanced age and experience -
ahem - I might add this. The struggle is real, ladies, but there is a pysiological basis
to the whole thing. Dr Mike spilled it; eating sugar, or any quick-release carb, will
augment the production of ghrelin, the hunger hormone. One just feels more, and
more, hungry the more one lapses into a sugar episode. That's the dark secret.
There is nor cursed mental state that afflicts binge eaters. They are quite normal
people...on a binge.
Three meals a day, no snacks, and correct for excessive hunger by eating more
high-fiber veg, fruit and protein at the expense of carbs for a while. All will snap back
into place in a day or two.
You are not helpless with respect to food. Everyone should have some go-to breakfast
to kick-off a new more subdued cycle. An egg on toast with a cup of tea!? You get
the idea. All meals should have pre-defined boundaries: a cheese sandwich contains
no more than one ounce of cheese, a serving of rice and chicken is only so big, and
so fort. Planning, and sticking to plan, is the key. And no all or nothing thinking.
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